So nought thereof he knoweth,” did Gunther’s liegeman say.
“Now welcome to me be the tidings,” Siegfried the hero replied,
“That here in such wise a wooer hath humbled thy tameless pride,
And that some one lives to be master at last over thee and thine!
Now shalt thou, noble maiden, fare with us to the Rhine.”
Made answer that high-born Lady: “Not yet may this thing be,
Ere I have summoned my kinsmen and them of my vassalry.
It is all unmeet that so lightly I depart from this my land:
Ere then must my nearest and dearest be bidden from every hand.”
Through the length and the breadth of her kingdom she made her messengers ride;